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Word Meanings - BULLIRAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.

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  • BADGERING
    1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
  • CONTEMPTUOUSLY
    In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
  • BADGER STATE
    Wisconsin; -- a nickname.
  • RALLY
    To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
  • INTIMIDATE
    To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash. Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Johnson. Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; abash;
  • BULLY; BULLY BEEF
    Pickled or canned beef. (more info) boil. See Boil, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the
  • BULLY TREE
    The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.
  • BULLY
    1. Jovial and blustering; dashing. "Bless thee, bully doctor." Shak. 2. Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
  • BADGER
    An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
  • BADGERER
    1. One who badgers. 2. A kind of dog used in badger baiting.
  • BULLYRAG
    See BULLIRAG
  • BADGER-LEGGED
    Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak.
  • BADGER GAME
    The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure.
  • BULLYROCK
    A bully. Shak.
  • SUTURALLY
    In a sutural manner.
  • CENTRALLY
    In a central manner or situation.
  • PASTORALLY
    1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
  • ORALLY
    1. In an oral manner. Tillotson. 2. By, with, or in, the mouth; as, to receive the sacrament orally. Usher.
  • LATERALLY
    By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
  • LITERALLY
    1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
  • CHORALLY
    In the manner of a chorus; adapted to be sung by a choir; in harmony.
  • SCRIPTURALLY
    In a scriptural manner.
  • DEXTRALLY
    (adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
  • NEUTRALLY
    In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently.
  • PECTORALLY
    As connected with the breast.
  • IMMORALLY
    In an immoral manner; wickedly.
  • COLLATERALLY
    1. Side by side; by the side. These pulleys . . . placed collaterally. Bp. Wilkins. 2. In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor. 3. In collateral relation;

 

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